C# Equivalent of C++ MD5 Algorith

[galtschul]

I am re-writing a C++ application in C# that takes a user's password,
encrypts it using MD5 (I think), and compares it to what was encrypted
and stored in the database when the user initially created their
password. The problem is that the C++ encryption generates 110
characters and the C# encryption generates only 24. The interesting
thing is that the 24 charectars generated by the C# MD5 algorithm
matches the last 24 charecters of the C++ encryption algorithm. Here is
the C++ code:

/**************************************/
std::string PasswordHash::get_passwordhash(char *s)
{
std::string hashed_value;

const BYTE* sval[1];
unsigned long lval[1];

sval[0] = reinterpret_cast<BYTE*>(s);
lval[0] = lstrlen(s);

CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER AlgId;
AlgId.pszObjId=szOID_RSA_MD5;
AlgId.Parameters.cbData=0;

CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA hash;
hash.cbSize = sizeof(CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA);
hash.dwMsgEncodingType = (PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING | X509_ASN_ENCODING);
hash.hCryptProv = NULL;
hash.HashAlgorithm = AlgId;
hash.pvHashAuxInfo = NULL;

unsigned long hash_length = 0;
if(!CryptHashMessage( &hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, NULL,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

BYTE* hash_data = new BYTE[hash_length + 1];
ZeroMemory(hash_data, hash_length + 1);

if(!CryptHashMessage(&hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, hash_data,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

std::vector<char vhash_data;
vhash_data.resize(hash_length);
memcpy(&vhash_data[0], (void*)hash_data, hash_length);

base64<charencoder;
int state = 0;
encoder.put(vhash_data.begin(), vhash_data.end(),
std::back_inserter(hashed_value), state, base64<>::noline());
return hashed_value;
}

/**************************************/

And here is the C# code that I'm using:

string generatePassword(string password)
{
MD5 md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data =
md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pass word));
string s = Convert.ToBase64String(data);
return s;
}

C++ OUTPUT
--------------------------
"MEcGCSqGSIb3DQEHBaA6MDgCAQAwDAYIKoZIhvcNAgUFADATB gkqhkiG9w0BBwGgBgQEODg3OAQQAETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ= ="

C# OUTPUT
--------------------------
"AETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ=="

Am I doing something wrong in the C# code? Perhaps I'm not fully
understanding what the C++ code is doing.

Thanks in advance for any help I can get

[Ben Voigt]

<ga*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...

>I am re-writing a C++ application in C# that takes a user's password,
encrypts it using MD5 (I think), and compares it to what was encrypted
and stored in the database when the user initially created their
password. The problem is that the C++ encryption generates 110
characters and the C# encryption generates only 24. The interesting
thing is that the 24 charectars generated by the C# MD5 algorithm
matches the last 24 charecters of the C++ encryption algorithm. Here is
the C++ code:

The C++ code is requesting ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509 message, which
will naturally add a humonguous header to the data.

>
/**************************************/
std::string PasswordHash::get_passwordhash(char *s)
{
std::string hashed_value;

const BYTE* sval[1];
unsigned long lval[1];

sval[0] = reinterpret_cast<BYTE*>(s);
lval[0] = lstrlen(s);

CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER AlgId;
AlgId.pszObjId=szOID_RSA_MD5;
AlgId.Parameters.cbData=0;

CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA hash;
hash.cbSize = sizeof(CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA);
hash.dwMsgEncodingType = (PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING | X509_ASN_ENCODING);
hash.hCryptProv = NULL;
hash.HashAlgorithm = AlgId;
hash.pvHashAuxInfo = NULL;

unsigned long hash_length = 0;
if(!CryptHashMessage( &hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, NULL,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

BYTE* hash_data = new BYTE[hash_length + 1];
ZeroMemory(hash_data, hash_length + 1);

if(!CryptHashMessage(&hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, hash_data,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

std::vector<char vhash_data;
vhash_data.resize(hash_length);
memcpy(&vhash_data[0], (void*)hash_data, hash_length);

base64<charencoder;
int state = 0;
encoder.put(vhash_data.begin(), vhash_data.end(),
std::back_inserter(hashed_value), state, base64<>::noline());
return hashed_value;
}

/**************************************/

And here is the C# code that I'm using:

string generatePassword(string password)
{
MD5 md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data =
md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pass word));
string s = Convert.ToBase64String(data);
return s;
}

C++ OUTPUT
--------------------------
"MEcGCSqGSIb3DQEHBaA6MDgCAQAwDAYIKoZIhvcNAgUFADATB gkqhkiG9w0BBwGgBgQEODg3OAQQAETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ= ="

C# OUTPUT
--------------------------
"AETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ=="

Am I doing something wrong in the C# code? Perhaps I'm not fully
understanding what the C++ code is doing.

Thanks in advance for any help I can get

[galtschul]

How do I go about implementing that in C#. I tried some of the various
x509 and pkcs7 classes and I kept getting exceptions having to do with
certificates and whatnot. I felt like I was wasting my time going down
the wrong path and this stuff doesn't seem too well documented on
msdn.microsoft.com.

Regards

Ben Voigt wrote:

<ga*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...

I am re-writing a C++ application in C# that takes a user's password,
encrypts it using MD5 (I think), and compares it to what was encrypted
and stored in the database when the user initially created their
password. The problem is that the C++ encryption generates 110
characters and the C# encryption generates only 24. The interesting
thing is that the 24 charectars generated by the C# MD5 algorithm
matches the last 24 charecters of the C++ encryption algorithm. Here is
the C++ code:

The C++ code is requesting ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509 message, which
will naturally add a humonguous header to the data.

/**************************************/
std::string PasswordHash::get_passwordhash(char *s)
{
std::string hashed_value;

const BYTE* sval[1];
unsigned long lval[1];

sval[0] = reinterpret_cast<BYTE*>(s);
lval[0] = lstrlen(s);

CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER AlgId;
AlgId.pszObjId=szOID_RSA_MD5;
AlgId.Parameters.cbData=0;

CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA hash;
hash.cbSize = sizeof(CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA);
hash.dwMsgEncodingType = (PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING | X509_ASN_ENCODING);
hash.hCryptProv = NULL;
hash.HashAlgorithm = AlgId;
hash.pvHashAuxInfo = NULL;

unsigned long hash_length = 0;
if(!CryptHashMessage( &hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, NULL,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

BYTE* hash_data = new BYTE[hash_length + 1];
ZeroMemory(hash_data, hash_length + 1);

if(!CryptHashMessage(&hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, hash_data,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

std::vector<char vhash_data;
vhash_data.resize(hash_length);
memcpy(&vhash_data[0], (void*)hash_data, hash_length);

base64<charencoder;
int state = 0;
encoder.put(vhash_data.begin(), vhash_data.end(),
std::back_inserter(hashed_value), state, base64<>::noline());
return hashed_value;
}

/**************************************/

And here is the C# code that I'm using:

string generatePassword(string password)
{
MD5 md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data =
md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pass word));
string s = Convert.ToBase64String(data);
return s;
}

C++ OUTPUT
--------------------------
"MEcGCSqGSIb3DQEHBaA6MDgCAQAwDAYIKoZIhvcNAgUFADATB gkqhkiG9w0BBwGgBgQEODg3OAQQAETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ= ="

C# OUTPUT
--------------------------
"AETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ=="

Am I doing something wrong in the C# code? Perhaps I'm not fully
understanding what the C++ code is doing.

Thanks in advance for any help I can get

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

Here is somebody's blog post that should point you in the right direction.
It's not as complicated as you indicated:

http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/c-c...5-hash-string/

Peter

--
Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog:
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com


"ga*******@gmail.com" wrote:

How do I go about implementing that in C#. I tried some of the various
x509 and pkcs7 classes and I kept getting exceptions having to do with
certificates and whatnot. I felt like I was wasting my time going down
the wrong path and this stuff doesn't seem too well documented on
msdn.microsoft.com.

Regards

Ben Voigt wrote:

<ga*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...

>I am re-writing a C++ application in C# that takes a user's password,
encrypts it using MD5 (I think), and compares it to what was encrypted
and stored in the database when the user initially created their
password. The problem is that the C++ encryption generates 110
characters and the C# encryption generates only 24. The interesting
thing is that the 24 charectars generated by the C# MD5 algorithm
matches the last 24 charecters of the C++ encryption algorithm. Here is
the C++ code:

The C++ code is requesting ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509 message, which
will naturally add a humonguous header to the data.

>
/**************************************/
std::string PasswordHash::get_passwordhash(char *s)
{
std::string hashed_value;
>
const BYTE* sval[1];
unsigned long lval[1];
>
sval[0] = reinterpret_cast<BYTE*>(s);
lval[0] = lstrlen(s);
>
CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER AlgId;
AlgId.pszObjId=szOID_RSA_MD5;
AlgId.Parameters.cbData=0;
>
CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA hash;
hash.cbSize = sizeof(CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA);
hash.dwMsgEncodingType = (PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING | X509_ASN_ENCODING);
hash.hCryptProv = NULL;
hash.HashAlgorithm = AlgId;
hash.pvHashAuxInfo = NULL;
>
unsigned long hash_length = 0;
if(!CryptHashMessage( &hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, NULL,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}
>
BYTE* hash_data = new BYTE[hash_length + 1];
ZeroMemory(hash_data, hash_length + 1);
>
if(!CryptHashMessage(&hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, hash_data,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}
>
std::vector<char vhash_data;
vhash_data.resize(hash_length);
memcpy(&vhash_data[0], (void*)hash_data, hash_length);
>
base64<charencoder;
int state = 0;
encoder.put(vhash_data.begin(), vhash_data.end(),
std::back_inserter(hashed_value), state, base64<>::noline());
return hashed_value;
}
>
/**************************************/
>
And here is the C# code that I'm using:
>
string generatePassword(string password)
{
MD5 md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data =
md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pass word));
string s = Convert.ToBase64String(data);
return s;
}
>
C++ OUTPUT
--------------------------
"MEcGCSqGSIb3DQEHBaA6MDgCAQAwDAYIKoZIhvcNAgUFADATB gkqhkiG9w0BBwGgBgQEODg3OAQQAETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ= ="
>
C# OUTPUT
--------------------------
"AETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ=="
>
Am I doing something wrong in the C# code? Perhaps I'm not fully
understanding what the C++ code is doing.
>
Thanks in advance for any help I can get
>

[galtschul]

I've looked at that post and it's basically doing exactly what I'm
doing, The only difference is tthat the author treats the incoming
string as unicode (which mine is not. It's ascii) and he converts to
HEX (which I can't do.. I have to convert to base64 since that's how
it's stored in the database). I did try this approach and, although I
got a different hash returned, it contained the same amount number of
charectars.

I don't see any reference here to ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509
message. How do I go about doing this in C#?

Regards,

Gregg

Peter wrote:

Here is somebody's blog post that should point you in the right direction.
It's not as complicated as you indicated:

http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/c-c...5-hash-string/

Peter

--
Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog:
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com


"ga*******@gmail.com" wrote:

How do I go about implementing that in C#. I tried some of the various
x509 and pkcs7 classes and I kept getting exceptions having to do with
certificates and whatnot. I felt like I was wasting my time going down
the wrong path and this stuff doesn't seem too well documented on
msdn.microsoft.com.

Regards

Ben Voigt wrote:

<ga*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
I am re-writing a C++ application in C# that takes a user's password,
encrypts it using MD5 (I think), and compares it to what was encrypted
and stored in the database when the user initially created their
password. The problem is that the C++ encryption generates 110
characters and the C# encryption generates only 24. The interesting
thing is that the 24 charectars generated by the C# MD5 algorithm
matches the last 24 charecters of the C++ encryption algorithm. Here is
the C++ code:
>
The C++ code is requesting ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509 message, which
will naturally add a humonguous header to the data.
>

/**************************************/
std::string PasswordHash::get_passwordhash(char *s)
{
std::string hashed_value;

const BYTE* sval[1];
unsigned long lval[1];

sval[0] = reinterpret_cast<BYTE*>(s);
lval[0] = lstrlen(s);

CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER AlgId;
AlgId.pszObjId=szOID_RSA_MD5;
AlgId.Parameters.cbData=0;

CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA hash;
hash.cbSize = sizeof(CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA);
hash.dwMsgEncodingType = (PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING | X509_ASN_ENCODING);
hash.hCryptProv = NULL;
hash.HashAlgorithm = AlgId;
hash.pvHashAuxInfo = NULL;

unsigned long hash_length = 0;
if(!CryptHashMessage( &hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, NULL,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

BYTE* hash_data = new BYTE[hash_length + 1];
ZeroMemory(hash_data, hash_length + 1);

if(!CryptHashMessage(&hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, hash_data,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

std::vector<char vhash_data;
vhash_data.resize(hash_length);
memcpy(&vhash_data[0], (void*)hash_data, hash_length);

base64<charencoder;
int state = 0;
encoder.put(vhash_data.begin(), vhash_data.end(),
std::back_inserter(hashed_value), state, base64<>::noline());
return hashed_value;
}

/**************************************/

And here is the C# code that I'm using:

string generatePassword(string password)
{
MD5 md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data =
md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pass word));
string s = Convert.ToBase64String(data);
return s;
}

C++ OUTPUT
--------------------------
"MEcGCSqGSIb3DQEHBaA6MDgCAQAwDAYIKoZIhvcNAgUFADATB gkqhkiG9w0BBwGgBgQEODg3OAQQAETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ= ="

C# OUTPUT
--------------------------
"AETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ=="

Am I doing something wrong in the C# code? Perhaps I'm not fully
understanding what the C++ code is doing.

Thanks in advance for any help I can get

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

Well, your original post said you were looking for an MD5 Hash. So, I guess
you are on your own.
Best of luck!
Peter

--
Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog:
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com


"ga*******@gmail.com" wrote:

I've looked at that post and it's basically doing exactly what I'm
doing, The only difference is tthat the author treats the incoming
string as unicode (which mine is not. It's ascii) and he converts to
HEX (which I can't do.. I have to convert to base64 since that's how
it's stored in the database). I did try this approach and, although I
got a different hash returned, it contained the same amount number of
charectars.

I don't see any reference here to ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509
message. How do I go about doing this in C#?

Regards,

Gregg

Peter wrote:

Here is somebody's blog post that should point you in the right direction.
It's not as complicated as you indicated:

http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/c-c...5-hash-string/

Peter

--
Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog:
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com


"ga*******@gmail.com" wrote:

How do I go about implementing that in C#. I tried some of the various
x509 and pkcs7 classes and I kept getting exceptions having to do with
certificates and whatnot. I felt like I was wasting my time going down
the wrong path and this stuff doesn't seem too well documented on
msdn.microsoft.com.
>
Regards
>
Ben Voigt wrote:
<ga*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
>I am re-writing a C++ application in C# that takes a user's password,
encrypts it using MD5 (I think), and compares it to what was encrypted
and stored in the database when the user initially created their
password. The problem is that the C++ encryption generates 110
characters and the C# encryption generates only 24. The interesting
thing is that the 24 charectars generated by the C# MD5 algorithm
matches the last 24 charecters of the C++ encryption algorithm. Here is
the C++ code:

The C++ code is requesting ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509 message, which
will naturally add a humonguous header to the data.

>
/**************************************/
std::string PasswordHash::get_passwordhash(char *s)
{
std::string hashed_value;
>
const BYTE* sval[1];
unsigned long lval[1];
>
sval[0] = reinterpret_cast<BYTE*>(s);
lval[0] = lstrlen(s);
>
CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER AlgId;
AlgId.pszObjId=szOID_RSA_MD5;
AlgId.Parameters.cbData=0;
>
CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA hash;
hash.cbSize = sizeof(CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA);
hash.dwMsgEncodingType = (PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING | X509_ASN_ENCODING);
hash.hCryptProv = NULL;
hash.HashAlgorithm = AlgId;
hash.pvHashAuxInfo = NULL;
>
unsigned long hash_length = 0;
if(!CryptHashMessage( &hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, NULL,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}
>
BYTE* hash_data = new BYTE[hash_length + 1];
ZeroMemory(hash_data, hash_length + 1);
>
if(!CryptHashMessage(&hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, hash_data,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}
>
std::vector<char vhash_data;
vhash_data.resize(hash_length);
memcpy(&vhash_data[0], (void*)hash_data, hash_length);
>
base64<charencoder;
int state = 0;
encoder.put(vhash_data.begin(), vhash_data.end(),
std::back_inserter(hashed_value), state, base64<>::noline());
return hashed_value;
}
>
/**************************************/
>
And here is the C# code that I'm using:
>
string generatePassword(string password)
{
MD5 md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data =
md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pass word));
string s = Convert.ToBase64String(data);
return s;
}
>
C++ OUTPUT
--------------------------
"MEcGCSqGSIb3DQEHBaA6MDgCAQAwDAYIKoZIhvcNAgUFADATB gkqhkiG9w0BBwGgBgQEODg3OAQQAETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ= ="
>
C# OUTPUT
--------------------------
"AETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ=="
>
Am I doing something wrong in the C# code? Perhaps I'm not fully
understanding what the C++ code is doing.
>
Thanks in advance for any help I can get
>
>
>

[galtschul]

Yeah, I've got the MD5 part . . . it's the "encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509
message" part that I'm not sure how to implement.

Peter wrote:

Well, your original post said you were looking for an MD5 Hash. So, I guess
you are on your own.
Best of luck!
Peter

--
Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog:
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com


"ga*******@gmail.com" wrote:

I've looked at that post and it's basically doing exactly what I'm
doing, The only difference is tthat the author treats the incoming
string as unicode (which mine is not. It's ascii) and he converts to
HEX (which I can't do.. I have to convert to base64 since that's how
it's stored in the database). I did try this approach and, although I
got a different hash returned, it contained the same amount number of
charectars.

I don't see any reference here to ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509
message. How do I go about doing this in C#?

Regards,

Gregg

Peter wrote:

Here is somebody's blog post that should point you in the right direction.
It's not as complicated as you indicated:
>
http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/c-c...5-hash-string/
>
Peter
>
--
Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog:
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
"ga*******@gmail.com" wrote:
>
How do I go about implementing that in C#. I tried some of the various
x509 and pkcs7 classes and I kept getting exceptions having to do with
certificates and whatnot. I felt like I was wasting my time going down
the wrong path and this stuff doesn't seem too well documented on
msdn.microsoft.com.

Regards

Ben Voigt wrote:
<ga*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
I am re-writing a C++ application in C# that takes a user's password,
encrypts it using MD5 (I think), and compares it to what was encrypted
and stored in the database when the user initially created their
password. The problem is that the C++ encryption generates 110
characters and the C# encryption generates only 24. The interesting
thing is that the 24 charectars generated by the C# MD5 algorithm
matches the last 24 charecters of the C++ encryption algorithm. Here is
the C++ code:
>
The C++ code is requesting ASN.1 encoding of a PKCS #7 X.509 message, which
will naturally add a humonguous header to the data.
>

/**************************************/
std::string PasswordHash::get_passwordhash(char *s)
{
std::string hashed_value;

const BYTE* sval[1];
unsigned long lval[1];

sval[0] = reinterpret_cast<BYTE*>(s);
lval[0] = lstrlen(s);

CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER AlgId;
AlgId.pszObjId=szOID_RSA_MD5;
AlgId.Parameters.cbData=0;

CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA hash;
hash.cbSize = sizeof(CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA);
hash.dwMsgEncodingType = (PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING | X509_ASN_ENCODING);
hash.hCryptProv = NULL;
hash.HashAlgorithm = AlgId;
hash.pvHashAuxInfo = NULL;

unsigned long hash_length = 0;
if(!CryptHashMessage( &hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, NULL,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

BYTE* hash_data = new BYTE[hash_length + 1];
ZeroMemory(hash_data, hash_length + 1);

if(!CryptHashMessage(&hash, FALSE, 1, sval, lval, hash_data,
&hash_length, NULL, NULL))
{
DWORD error = GetLastError();
return hashed_value;
}

std::vector<char vhash_data;
vhash_data.resize(hash_length);
memcpy(&vhash_data[0], (void*)hash_data, hash_length);

base64<charencoder;
int state = 0;
encoder.put(vhash_data.begin(), vhash_data.end(),
std::back_inserter(hashed_value), state, base64<>::noline());
return hashed_value;
}

/**************************************/

And here is the C# code that I'm using:

string generatePassword(string password)
{
MD5 md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data =
md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(pass word));
string s = Convert.ToBase64String(data);
return s;
}

C++ OUTPUT
--------------------------
"MEcGCSqGSIb3DQEHBaA6MDgCAQAwDAYIKoZIhvcNAgUFADATB gkqhkiG9w0BBwGgBgQEODg3OAQQAETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ= ="

C# OUTPUT
--------------------------
"AETe7sQ97Rm5UhJQeesXgQ=="

Am I doing something wrong in the C# code? Perhaps I'm not fully
understanding what the C++ code is doing.

Thanks in advance for any help I can get